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Mosaic is an online magazine of Jewish ideas, religion, politics, and culture which was established in June 2013. [ 1 ] An online subscription magazine, it offers full-length monthly essays "on an issue or theme of pressing significance for Jews, Judaism, or the Jewish state". [ 2 ]
The Jewish Theological Seminary Library is one of the largest Jewish libraries in the world. Founded in 1893, it is located at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City , New York , and holds over 400,000 volumes, as well as extensive rare materials collections, including the world's largest collection of Hebrew manuscripts. [ 1 ]
The Tikvah Fund has funded several publications, including Commentary, Mosaic and its predecessor Jewish Ideas Daily, the Jewish Review of Books, [4] and Mida. [ 7 ] The Fund also organizes the Jewish Leadership Conference, a politically conservative Jewish conference. [ 8 ]
Gershon Hundert: winner of the Judaica Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries (2008) [25] Moshe Idel: winner of the Israel Prize for Jewish thought (1999) [26] Sara Japhet: former president of the World Union of Jewish Studies (2005-2009); winner of the Israel Prize for Biblical studies (2004). [27]
The Center for Jewish History is a partnership of five Jewish history, scholarship, and art organizations in New York City, namely the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute New York, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Together, housed in one location, the partners ...
Bar Ilan University - Centre for the study of philosophy, ethics and Jewish thought. Jewish thought (Hebrew: מחשבת ישראל, Machshevet Yisrael), also known as Judaic thought or Hebraic thought, is a field of Jewish studies that deals with the products of Jewish thought and culture throughout the ages, and their historical development.
Alexander Altmann (April 16, 1906 – June 6, 1987) was an Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi born in Kassa, Austria-Hungary (present-day Košice, Slovakia).He emigrated to England in 1938 and later settled in the United States, working productively for a decade and a half as a professor within the Philosophy Department at Brandeis University.
The war is described in two distinct parts, first (the War against the Kittim) described as a battle between the Sons of Light, consisting of the sons of Levi, the sons of Judah, and the sons of Benjamin, and the exiled of the desert, against Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Amalekites, and Philistia and their allies the Kittim of Asshur ...